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Hosted by Asian School of Cyber Laws, CyberAttack 2008 is aimed at knowledge sharing amongst cyber crime investigators and computer emergency response professionals.

The conference will focus on:

1. latest trends in cyber crimes
2. best practices for cyber crime investigation
3. best practices for cyber forensics.

Original papers are invited from professionals. Authors of short listed Papers will have the option to present the paper in person or in absentia. All short listed Papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Further information can be obtained from:

www.cyberattack.in

Asian School of Cyber Laws is the pioneer in education and research in cyber law and cyber crime investigation in India. We have assisted the Government of India in framing rules and regulations under the Information Technology Act. We work closely with Governments and law enforcement agencies around the world in the fields of cyber crime investigation and cyber forensics.

Books are available in the following categories:
1. Forensics
2. Linux Security
3. Unix Security
4. Windows Security
5. Wireless Security
6. Firewalls

Additionally you can also subscribe to relevant magazines and buy security related software and electronics.

Husband spying on wife among secrets revealed by ‘unshredder’ chewing through East German secret-police files

January 20, 2008

Brett Popplewell
 
Nineteen years ago, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and democracy swept through communist East Germany, STASI agents – members of the secret police – worked feverishly to destroy millions of top-secret documents in an effort to keep them from Western eyes.

Attempting to shred some 45 million items as quickly as possible, the agents fed page after page into shredding machines. The equipment quickly jammed, leaving the agents to tear up the materials by hand and throw them into garbage bags meant to be incinerated.

But with East Germany quickly falling into the hands of the west, the agents were stopped before they could burn the shreds. Some 600 million pieces in 16,000 bags became the property of the current German government. They have remained, for the most part, in that state.

Then, in May 2007, the German government revealed the world’s most sophisticated pattern-recognition machine, the $8.5 million dollar (U.S.) E-Puzzler, which can digitally put back together even the most finely shredded papers.

Developed in Berlin by the Fraunhofer Institute of Production Facilities and Construction Technology, the E-puzzler is a computerized conveyor belt that runs shards of shredded and torn paper through a digital scanner.

Scanning up to 10,000 shreds at once, the machine links them together by their colour, typeface, outline, shape and texture – not unlike how the average human might try to piece together a puzzle. The machine then displays a digital image of the original document on a computer screen.

“The task to automatically reconstruct 16,250 bags full of torn documents using a technical system . . . presents an enormous technological challenge,” says Bertram Nickolay, the lead inventor of the machine.

During the Cold War, East Germany’s Ministry for State Security – STASI – was regarded as one of the most formidable secret police forces of its day. Using a vast network of civilian informants, the STASI kept files on up to 6 million of East Germany’s 16 million citizens through an estimated 400,000 informants from all walks of life.

For decades, neighbours spied on neighbours, priests spied on their flocks, husbands spied on their wives and even children spied on their parents. They reported their discoveries to the 90,000 STASI agents keeping tabs on the population.

Prior to the creation of the E-puzzler, a team of 15 Germans had laboriously been putting the pieces together by hand. But they managed to rebuild only 10,000 documents from 300 bags during 12 years. The German government estimated it would take a further 600 to 800 years to finish the job.

But having uncovered heartbreaking stories of espionage – like that of Vera Lengsfeld, a 54-year old German politician who was shocked to learn she had been spied on by her husband for 11 years – the German public demanded the files be put together more quickly. An estimated 3.4 million Germans have officially requested to see the information the STASI gathered on them.

With the E-puzzler, Nickolay says the government will be able to un-shred the remaining documents by 2013.

Nickolay acknowledges his machine’s importance in helping millions of Germans to piece together their former lives. But says his machine is even more significant to the rest of the world.

In addition to piecing together shreds of paper, the machine has been used by Chinese archaeologists to reconstruct smashed Terracotta warriors found in the tomb of Emperor Qin. And the equipment has deciphered barely-legible lists of Nazi concentration camp victims.

There is only one E-puzzler in operation, but Nickolay’s team has received interest from other former Eastern Bloc countries looking for a way to get at their own state secrets of the past.

“It’s no longer safe to shred a document,” Nickolay says. “The only safe way to destroy something is by burning it.”

There is a lot of misconception about hacking.

As a noun it means “an incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed”.

As a verb it means “to interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way”.

I believe that true Hackers are physical and virtual beings who believe that

1. In an ideal world, information (and software) should be free.
2. We do not live in an ideal world, so software piracy and malicious hacking is a crime.
3. A hacker is judged only by his skills, intentions and willingness to share his knowledge.
4. You can create art and beauty on a computer.
5. Computers can change your life for the better.

No matter where you look, she is there…posing on a huge poster or being interviewed on the idiot box. She is a classic example of how good marketing can sell a bad product.

With virtually no beauty, no finesse and no acting prowess, she has still managed to survive and even grow in Bollywood. Her marketing techniques can be made into a case study for management institutes. Her ability to use innovative marketing tools (mainly controversy) is admirable to say the least.

Her media management skills are exceptional. “Media ne mujhe banaya hai” she said during a recent interview on Aaj Tak. How true.

I have keenly followed her antics for quite some time now (more out of morbid fascination rather than anything else) and am impressed. She is very very street-smart. She knows what the majority wants and she knows how to cater to the masses.

Did you know this? (source – the Rakhi Sawant Fan Club website)

Rakhi Sawant’s father (an ACP with the Mumbai Police) left home in protect after she insisted on continuing her acting career.

Her first break was in an Item Number opposite Govinda in Joru ka Gulam. Three years later, she auditioned four times before winning her breakthrough Item number Mohabbat hai Mirchi in Chura Liya Hai Tumne in 2003.

5. Seinfeld

4. Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister

3. Frasier

2. Scrubs

1. Friends